Patents by Inventor Ernst Frederik Jacobus VAN BRUGGEN

Ernst Frederik Jacobus VAN BRUGGEN has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240130300
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for optimizing a greenhouse environment. The method comprises determining environmental targets for the greenhouse environment, and determining environmental actions based on the determined environmental targets. The determination of the environmental targets comprises receiving plant status data indicative of observable characteristics of plant(s), receiving long-term constraint(s) indicative of long-term predictions of a first set of external circumstances, and determining environmental targets, based on the plant status data and the long-term constraint(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Ernst Frederik Jacobus Van Bruggen, Cédric Cyril Canovas, Rien Arthur Kamman, Paula Luiza Amaral Santos
  • Patent number: 10024015
    Abstract: A support device configured to be positioned on a lifting vessel in order to support a topside of an offshore platform, the support device comprising: a main cylindrical casing having an upper opening, the main casing defining a main vertical axis, the main casing further defining an upper support rim, a reservoir located inside the main casing for holding a granular material or a fluid, the reservoir having a discharge opening for emptying the reservoir, a spring support slideably arranged within the main casing, the spring support resting on the granular material or the fluid and being movable from an upper position to a lower position in dependence on a filing degree of the reservoir, a spring device positioned on the spring support, a receptor support positioned on the spring device, the receptor support defining an upper surface, and a receptor device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: HEEREMA MARINE CONTRACTORS NEDERLAND SE
    Inventors: Onno Ludolf De Waard, Ernst Frederik Jacobus Van Bruggen
  • Publication number: 20170356153
    Abstract: A support device configured to be positioned on a lifting vessel in order to support a topside of an offshore platform, the support device comprising: a main cylindrical casing having an upper opening, the main casing defining a main vertical axis, the main casing further defining an upper support rim, a reservoir located inside the main casing for holding a granular material or a fluid, the reservoir having a discharge opening for emptying the reservoir, a spring support slideably arranged within the main casing, the spring support resting on the granular material or the fluid and being movable from an upper position to a lower position in dependence on a filing degree of the reservoir, a spring device positioned on the spring support, a receptor support positioned on the spring device, the receptor support defining an upper surface, and a receptor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Onno Ludolf DE WAARD, Ernst Frederik Jacobus VAN BRUGGEN